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Mexico came out Tuesday against Texas’ immigration law that allows for the arrest of people suspected of illegally crossing the southern border following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, saying it won’t accept the return of its citizens from the Lone Star state. Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said SB 4 criminalizes migrants, encourages the separation of families and racial discrimination and profiling. …

A man living in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, has been found guilty in the 1980 cold case murder of a 19-year-old college student. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Amy Baggio on Friday found Robert Plympton, 60, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Barbara Mae Tucker, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release on Monday. …

An Afghan refugee was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community during the summer of 2022. Muhammad Syed faces life in prison for killing 41-year-old Aftab Hussein on July 26, 2022. He also will stand trial in the coming months in the other two slayings. During the trial, prosecutors presented …

For one afternoon, on Antioch’s main street and tranquil riverbank, the fragrance of burning incense was paired with the sound of Buddhist and Tao chants. Their cumulative calming energy was meant to be a balm of sorts to soothe the racial and religious hate that cast a shadow on Antioch’s legacy. Antioch’s dark past, specifically its horrific mistreatment of early …

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law ending home equity theft in the latest statewide effort to protect homeowners’ property rights. The Idaho legislature unanimously approvedHouse Bill 444in both chambers, which Little signed into law on March 11. The legislation, sponsored by State Rep. Jeff Ehlers and Sen. Phil Hart, removed a home equity theft loophole in state …

A New York woman’s horrified son called police after finding his mother’s dead body stuffed into a duffel bag in her new apartment, where two people were reportedly seen driving away in her car afterward. Nadia Vitels, 52, was found in her apartment on East 31st Street in Manhattan unconscious and unresponsive inside the bag last Thursday at approximately 4:29 …

A federal appeals court asked West Virginia’s highest court Monday whether opioid distributions can cause a public nuisance as it reviews a landmark lawsuit against three major U.S. drug distributors accused of causing a health crisis in one of the state’s counties. In July 2022, a federal judge in Charleston, West Virginia, ruled in favor of AmerisourceBergen Drug Co., Cardinal …

When Mike O’Neil opened his bicycle repair shop in Muncie, Indiana, the Cardinal Greenway trail just outside its window stretched only 2 miles south of the shop. Today, it extends 33 miles beyond that, but the ultimate vision is far grander. O’Neil hopes the trail born from eastern Indiana’s old railroad tracks will eventually become a central cog in the …

A California police department is using a creative solution to hide the identities of some suspects by covering their faces with Lego heads in booking photos and mugshots. The Murrieta Police Department explained on Monday that the placement of Lego faces is an effort to comply with a state law that prohibits law enforcement agencies from sharing images of suspects …

The bodies of a missing Texas woman and her 3-year-old son who were the subject of an AMBER Alert have been found, and the deaths were part of a possible murder-suicide, authorities said Tuesday. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said the deaths of Savannah Samantha Kriger, 32, and Kaiden Kriger were being investigated as a homicide. The bodies were found …